Tomorrowland Ruined My Life And Dreams

[@avery9122]

2017 jenny: calls a 21 minute video "really long" 2020 jenny: spends an hour talking about the land before time

[@myettechase]

Vampire Diaries Jenny: you underestimate my power, old man

[@imjune8373]

@@myettechase Therapist: Vampire Diaries Jenny isn't real, it can't hurt you. Vampire Diaries Jenny: 2:33:19

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

@@imjune8373 I tried to click the timestamp, because I'm a fucking idiot

[@benedictdwyer2608]

@@ILikedGooglePlus SAME

[@mdrivera8481]

2021. Spends 2 hours talking about Vampire Diaries

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

I will now reread 1984 from the perspective of it being a how-to guide

[@taffysaur]

You will then be qualified for a media job

[@youtubecensors5419]

Or academia!

[@Defectum138]

Been there

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

How 2020 of you.

[@phoenixdavida8987]

were you prepared for the slaughter to come?

[@TadBigby]

I really appreciate how every time she mentions "Hugh Laurie in a crazy space jacket' it's a different picture of Hugh Laurie in a crazy space jacket.

[@bennyton2560]

lmaooo

[@Jonnyg325]

That sounds like a blackadder episode or a bit of fry and laurie

[@AnarchistPoop]

details like that make her videos so hysterical

[@LuvyLuvy76]

If I order chilli and someone gave me a can of secret documents instead, I would be very upset

[@Flowtail]

I think the idea was that they would give you the can with your food

[@taffysaur]

I thought the idea was chilli was no longer actually on the menu, and so they knew you were specifically asking after the game..?

[@Flowtail]

Mychael Darklighter Hopefully walt never time-travels to his park, since he’ll be all upset about the jews in the park and he can’t even get a decent order of chili anymore

[@maxhydekyle2425]

@@Flowtail He'd be annoyed until they showed him the list of acquisitions

[@taffysaur]

Fif Gallag Walt didn’t hate Jews, that is a myth spread by communists.

[@SpeakingJargon]

Meet the Robinsons is the underrated movie Tomorrowland should have been.

[@jillmo6458]

And the villain was a literal black hat. Good stuff.

[@anarchohannibalism]

Meet the Robinsons was a staple of my childhood, honestly.

[@ANoteToSelf]

YES

[@carriewood3308]

SO GOOD

[@Endoptic]

"I am always right. Even when I'm wrong, I'm right!" Disney princess mentality, yay...

[@aromaladyellie]

Almost at the end and I notice the Ratatouille doll with the intense thousand yard stare looking right at Jenny's back.

[@Awesomeasumpta13]

Uh, his name is Remy.

[@flytiger575]

@@Awesomeasumpta13 Actually He's Dr. Remy Ratatoullie. Linguini is Ratatoullie's monster.

[@timstarkey3692]

@@flytiger575 I hate this *so* much

[@crunchii891]

@@flytiger575 this is the most perfect comment. I love you.

[@splendidsimp]

@@flytiger575 I read that as "Ratatouille's mother" and just accepted it before rereading it again

[@KettleDrum519]

"Hey kid, we can't just make inventions because they're cool and fun. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go on a whimsical boat ride through a pageant of living dolls." This is why I love this channel.

[@poopbutt3830]

@Louie Clyde what a weird place for ad placement

[@rjs617]

That line made me laugh out loud. The other one was the rant about how the studio said the movie flopped because people don’t like innovation. “Thanks, Tomorrowland!”

[@victorprieto9893]

"The whole point of dystopian literature is to encourage positive change to stop it from happening. " Tempted to have this as my senior quote with your name nect to it and have people expect a politically driven account and find a hardcore analytic reviewer who also collects Porgs

[@Flowtail]

I sincerely hope you went for it

[@insolencestar]

please update me on this. I've been waiting.. 🌸

[@victorprieto9893]

I went with chris flemings “mom dad I’m not a man, I’m not a woman, I’m a showpig. Grease me up and send me to market” which also holds a lot of power I think

[@NeverWolf]

The whole point of dystopian literature is to cope with where we're headed.

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

@@NeverWolf it really, really isn't

[@windknife]

I can't believe you didn't mention how George Clooney's love interest was a robot played by a 13 year old girl. I legit thought he was gonna kiss her when she had that dying scene.

[@Diamondgamervideos]

Same??? I saw the movie when I was like 9 and even I was questioning this fact ? ?? ??? I was like please don't????? At 9 yrs old

[@camirdma]

Yeah like wtf

[@TheGazingHeart]

GOD YEAH that was the absolute worst! so uncomfortable!!

[@eadlynjune]

Actually I thought that was one of the most interesting ideas brought up by the movie. The robot girl is not a child but she is. Mentally she is as mature and as old as George Clooney. They can never actually be together though because of the body she was given never changes like a normal human. It’s like a weird issue that really interesting and really sad to think about. That robot girl, even if she never died, would never be able to find a true romantic human connection because they will always grow up and she physically cannot. I almost feel like Clooney wasn’t really, I don’t know how to say it, in love with her. Like he did love her but more I felt he mourned the loss of something they never got to have because he grew up when she couldn’t. I dunno, it’s just so good and it was wasted on this movie.

[@TheGazingHeart]

@@eadlynjune i stand by the fact that it is still very uncomfortable to watch a child actor and a grown adult actor play out weird almost-, if not outright, romantic tension.

[@Kilojoules]

I love that every time she talks about the villain, she doesn't call him by the character name. it's always Hugh Laurie. Usually in a crazy space jacket. Makes it feel like he was cast to play as himself in a crazy space jacket. Which for some reason makes it funnier imo

[@_skysick_]

I'm watching this very topical video in 2019.

[@RiverGriffith2016]

Skysick hey same... binging all the videos on this channel

[@tinabean713]

Same. Also, reading and liking comments from eons ago, because not only have I fallen in love with this channel, but also the comments.

[@ian_b]

@@tinabean713 Me too...

[@TAK-yj4hj]

Skysick Im watching it in 2020

[@infinitystones1939]

Hello from 2020, enjoy 2019 while it lasts...

[@lollybowser]

I went with my dad to see Tomorrowland in theatres, with him paying for the tickets. We watched till the end and while leaving the theatre I apologised for having wasted his money.

[@indigo7289]

The exact same scenario for me too, except my dad fell asleep 30 minutes in.

[@josephnewberry9290]

Yes! This is a spot on description of this movie's failures. The trailer promised an adventure in a retro future world, not a run around clue solving story that resolved in a grey, bleak world of missed opportunity. Thank you for the succinct analysis.

[@davidjames579]

Did they not have the budget for a whole movie of that? It's weird, as so much of the film is a blandly photographed road movie, with just people talking. And tonally jarring violent fight scenes.

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

The saddest thing to me is that the girl who played the child android did a _really_ spectacular job of playing her role. It may not look much, but for a kid, this degree of convincing acting is a *_huge_* deal - and she got wasted on a convoluted story that does not leave more than a forgettable "meh" and a "that was it?" in the viewer's mouth.

[@alexisb3829]

True

[@ptorq]

Kid Clooney was also really good; he was a considerably more believable character than the actual lead actress.

[@mothboy4858]

I had no idea that Casey was supposed to be a teenager in this movie. I just thought she was an adult who acted really weird.

[@jamilabrownie]

The actress has been playing a teenager for like a decade. I don’t know why they casted her.

[@ian_b]

She was literally (as in, actually) 25 when the movie was released.

[@justins8802]

It’s not that it’s rare for a 25 year old to play a teen, it’s that it’s rare for a 25 year old who looks 30 to play a teen.

[@ArturGlass.C]

@@justins8802 I mean yeah she looks 30 but I'm sorry 25 year old actors they use to play teenagers don't look like teenagers. We're just used to seeing teenagers played by 20 something years old actors so we accept it but that's not how teenagers look like.

[@Neimi_Lelnuie]

@@ArturGlass.C i mean rewatch the first Sam Raimy Spiderman. Who would believe they are less than 20 ?

[@HollowHouse3]

I know that the little girl character was an ageless robot and that George Clooney's character was a child when he developed a crush on her but did anyone else notice the weird, almost sexual tension between them in the present? Myself and the people I saw the movie with were made kind of uncomfortable by it.

[@dujjo20]

I saw it more as a broken friendship but george clooney is to charasmatic for his own good so it kinda came off weird from script to screen

[@secretname3897]

@@dujjo20 this is also the impression I get. Most everyone looks at such relationships as exclusively sexual or romantic, but I saw it as platonic when they were older. But most folk see handsome George Clooney opposite a "female" character and assume. Like you said, he's too naturally charming - on top of Hollywood's penchant for stuffing needless romance into every single story - so people's interpretations of their relationship were skewed.

[@TheSoulHarvester]

@@secretname3897 "I'm too naturally charming, so people's interpretation of our relationship was skewed, your Honor."

[@Gcool243]

Semidecentdude George Clooney is one of the worst actors in Hollywood. He has one emotion and one face he makes. He’d legitimately be nothing without his looks

[@Flowtail]

Seems like it could’ve been mitigated by, like, writing it so there wasn’t a crush when they were kids? Because going out of your way in the movie to show that there was a crush, even if it was in childhood, implies that it’s important in some way that influences their relationship today So Like Why did it have to be a crush? Couldn’t it have been just a friendship that became strained as he grew older and she never did? That would’ve lessened the creep factor at least

[@thegamedudeguy]

"My #1 fandom is theme parks." I love how Jenny backs this up by having a poster of a theme park hung up on her wall.

[@rosesske2551]

Don't forget the figment plushes.

[@radiobob1908]

And the Tiki room bird pillow

[@TreetopCanopy]

"The whole point of dystopian literature is to encourage positive change to stop it from happening." -16:09 This was my main problem with the movie. I had to explain this to the olders (40+ years old) I saw it with. They were so confused, which is weird.

[@iloveyourunclebob]

@AdamWayneone well thank god this is a satirical channel and not an English teacher.

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@iloveyourunclebob lmao 👏👏👏👏

[@jeffwells641]

Wtf do you mean 'grammatically it makes no sense'? It's perfectly fine grammatically. In what way does it not make sense?

[@robertgaudet7407]

@@jeffwells641 I honestly don't know either

[@Flowtail]

Nice, replacing “elders” with “olders” could be the next “ok boomer”

[@JetSetDex]

I can't get enough this girls dry and sarcastic humor, especially because of how quiet she is when she does it.

[@TheSoulHarvester]

Her name's Jenny & she's in her 20s my man

[@tinabean713]

@@TheSoulHarvester My senior year in high school I said something like, "Hey, girl" to another girl from my school when she came into the shop where I worked and she got super offended and told me, "I'm 18. I'm a woman!" Long story short, I still refer to women my age or younger as girls. Maybe because I'm 44 and still don't feel like a real grown up. Maybe because girl sounds more endearing and woman sounds kinda cold. I mostly use it for referring to older women or in formal settings. People who use these terms don't always mean it in a demeaning way.

[@naughtybear2187]

Tina Morris I would think saying "hey Woman" would sound more demeaning for some reason. I don't really know why but it does.

[@naughtybear2187]

@@trequor yea man soul harvester is just making a big deal for no reason.

[@nkbujvytcygvujno6006]

Just because assholes like to use it and say they’re being friendly and personal doesn’t make it less demeaning to call adult women girls. Is catcalling okay if you call it a compliment? And no one asked for a stranger to be personal. But people like you love to pretend they don’t understand that the person who is forced to put up with you should rightfully get to decide how they feel about what you call them or say to them, not you. I’m just leaving this for the comments. I won’t reply to the idiots that might swarm on me to “debate” this obvious fact. I know you already get it and are just endlessly making excuses. “Someone told me not to call her this so now I call everyone that because I feel like it” plz

[@reyathua]

There are two wolves inside of you: one is Tomorrow, the other is Land

[@vfxninja5503]

One is Hugh Laurie in a crazy space jacket. The other is a 25 year old woman who looks like she's 30 pretending to be 17.

[@sw3aty_forte]

woah

[@The_Worst_Alien42]

I just want to say how funny it is watching this in December 2022 and hearing Jenny call this a really long video.

[@mk7212]

even funnier in 2024

[@RogueAstro85]

I've come from the future to tell you that it gets even funnier

[@WatchdogGoon]

"This is Tomorrowland, isn't it? I rebel." --Casey the rebellious genius

[@WatchdogGoon]

Also, I would watch your space mountain movie.

[@jamesmoseley5428]

Genius. Wow. Movie dialogue has really gotten bad huh?

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

“Willikers”

[@Mitchollow]

The Disneyland train station really was pumping out coherent morse code!? I tried to use a Morse translation app to decode it back in November, but I got nothing. Too much background chatter I guess.

[@madeleine7419]

It is! I am only passable but my machine shop teacher makes and sells telegraphs (beautiful things) and he is insanely fluent. It was a welcome message and some other sappy drivel when I was there!

[@MariaThePotterNut]

It's always doing the opening day speech, the "To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land." one

[@roumonada]

Hobbies, Jenny. We called them hobbies.

[@JennyNicholson]

Joshua Roumonada wtf is a hobie

[@roumonada]

It's a Jenny that's a butt.

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

I would term theme parks more an interest or passion. Hobbies, to me, are activities you do. I, personally, don't make theme parks.

[@doctorkocktor1347]

josh no

[@SilentMeteorite]

​​@@JennyNicholson Hobie is a character from Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse

[@nimbostratus1162]

Tomorrowland: Who are you? Meet the Robinsons: I'm you, but better

[@davidjames579]

Britt wanted to be in Meet The Robinsons but her surname wasn't close enough.

[@alessioaletta8121]

Meet the Robinsons: Who are you? Tomorrowland: I'm you, but bitter.

[@fentanyl-induced-coma]

you ever find a channel then binge watch all their videos? yeah

[@Violablacks]

She's all Ive watched for three days, I feel this so hard

[@plutosgardener2631]

What no never...

[@someguyparagon5273]

Watch all their videos? I mean if I like it enough I subscribe to them...

[@ryPish]

This. But two years later. And I might be rewatching stuff already because there aren't enough videos on the channel D:

[@RodneyAndMeVideos]

Big yes

[@ToaOfGallifrey]

I'm disappointed that they never found Walt's cryogenic chamber.

[@davidjames579]

That was in the sequel. But you have to order the right lunchtime combination to watch it.

[@kirbyofthestars2269]

You're so soft-spoken it melts my heart.

[@Martyhero]

The "There Are Two Wolves Inside You" proverb was made up by a Southern Evangelist in the 1970s who claimed it was Ancient Indian Wisdom to give it an air of mystic credibility. He originally said it was an old Eskimo tale, but the Inuit people blasted him in the Canadian Press so he changed it to Cherokee, because it was the 70s and American First Nation people had no voice whatsoever.

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

If he was an Evangelist why didn't he say it was a Jesus thing?

[@schippai3308]

@@judeconnor-macintyre9874 Jesus wasn't canonically a furry

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

@@schippai3308 Oh, that makes sense I guess. But don't most religions denounce other culture beliefs, it seems weird a bunch of Christians or whatever would believe in Native American philosophy. I would've said I found some gold plates in my yard that told me there were two wolves inside me.

[@bigmoneyswager]

@@judeconnor-macintyre9874 can we see em?

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

@@bigmoneyswager No. God told me to keep them to myself. I can show you the paper I transcribed them on though.

[@jakeforster4950]

I saw this film at the cinema and instantly forgot it existed until seeing this video right now. Always the mark of a masterpiece

[@ras2010able]

Before we used fandoms I think the word used was "Interests".

[@jamiehanrahan4705]

Fandom denotes a far greater degree of involvement than merely "interest".

[@HereComesPopoBawa]

People often gloss over being aware that "fan" is short for "fanatic" - suggesting people who aren't being critical of whatever they are fixated upon. That is why I don't use it to refer to interests generally. Before the term became popular, many used "enthusiast", which really means the same thing. I tend to go with "epicure", myself.

[@kevinwells9751]

This was word for word the comment I was going to make if it didn't exist already

[@CondescendingConcepts]

I was thinking of "passions".

[@taffysaur]

Popo Bawa They don’t gloss it over, it’s just that words evolve over time.

[@saerain]

Proper succinct response to _Tomorrowland_ seems to be, "I get there isn't enough optimistic sci-fi, but what are we doing to fix it?"

[@millernumber1]

Brilliant.

[@allocater2]

Star Trek Discovery! (hopefully, maybe)

[@millernumber1]

Wait, actual answers? Oh, right. Okay. Um. Necessity trilogy by Jo Walton (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity) is pretty good in that direction - explicitly a utopian philosophical work where time travelling Greek gods try to create Plato's Republic for real. Looking over my media consumption for the past three years, it does seem like there isn't much scifi that isn't dystopian, though - although most of the dystopian stuff I've read/watched has been hopeful in the end.

[@ClayMann]

you can thank Blade Runner for this. It imprinted its visual look so strongly that it changed the direction of almost all sci-fi going forward.

[@millernumber1]

Well, a lot of the movies I'm thinking of aren't really Blade Runnery. But that is a big influence on many, true.

[@Gogoroth2]

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go on a whimsical boat ride through a pageant of living dolls." is my new favorite excuse to get out of conversations

[@unintentionallydramatic]

13:55 This part is honestly _heartbreaking_ when you think about it. Hate trains are hard to stop once they get going but the concept of this movie _didn't_ have a hate train. No. People genuinely felt let down.

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

you forgot to mention how incredibly violent this movie was for no reason

[@JennyNicholson]

Carlos Most of it was robot violence so it didn't feel out of place to me. But in my rewatch I did laugh out loud at Hugh Laurie's gruesome leg-crushing because it was so unexpectedly brutal

[@tayw6466]

Jenny my dream is for you to one day make a movie about how stupid everything my parents say is

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

Jenny Nicholson robot violence would be okay if one of the main characters wasn't a robot

[@belainegibsson.2082]

tay w That's not correct grammar.

[@TheSsbcandidates]

Still was weird. You are cute by the way.

[@mariananarciso7445]

when you mentioned the girl named athena i literally went "OH YEAAHHH i watched this movie in theaters" i forgot this movie existed

[@user-DullardBones]

The part where smiling Men-in-Black robots evaporate some random innocent bystander in a Disney movie means I can't forget this movie. *Ever.* O_o

[@ennardthedunce9363]

Same I totally forgot it but sometimes I just get the image of the outside of tommorow land idk why

[@AdmiralBonetoPick]

I saw this movie, but was surprised when Jenny mentioned George Clooney, as I have no memory of him being in this. I think my memory conflated Hugh Laurie's character as also doing all Clooney's scenes.

[@thesicksound]

"Yaaarr; kids these days just want to watch Spiderman movies. That be why we aren't actually pirates, and are just pretendin' to be... 'tis a hostile social climate for the likes of a pirate, yeearr..." made me cringe-laugh.

[@sheplaysgames2962]

I don't know the name of the girl cast as the teenager but she's cast as a rebel teenager in nearly everything she does. It's weird. She plays a stroppy teenager well I guess because that's what she's type cast as. She was in the space between us as a teenager at school and she's 27 and in the same year she's in girl boss. I don't get why she keeps playing teenager rolls. Do they think she'll get away with it because she's short?

[@aduzzz3322]

😂😂that last part was funny

[@Poodleinacan]

40 years later.... "Hey my fellow teens. My osteoporosis is killing me. Well, I got to go. I bid you all good health."

[@abbywolffe4114]

It's Britt Robertson and yeah you're right she's always the Troubled Teen

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

Worked for Michael J Fox

[@iamaunicorn1232]

That's how I get away with looking younger. I'm 22 and I can still get kids movie tickets from the people in the box, not just the machine. XD

[@jeremyud]

"Willikers, Mr. Clooney, I'm definitely not 25 years old!"

[@tetsubo57]

I didn't hate the movie. I actually saw it for the first time last weekend. One thing that did bug me was the disappearing people. Frank vanishes at age ten for twenty years. Casey's family just disappears one day. These would be criminal cases that scared the crap out of the community at large.

[@MrDj232]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who watched it recently. I was taking care of dogs for people with no internet and no TV but an extensive collection of Disney DVDs. What circle of hell forced you to watch it? P.S. I also got bored enough to give The Good Dinosaur a try. Tomorrowland was actually the highpoint of that day.

[@kayt3703]

My boyfriend and i broke up after seeing that movie

[@chadschmaltz9790]

Did go on to become evil scientist Hugh Lori?

[@kingoftehwalrus77]

I have a crazy space jacket if you need it.

[@artistfloor9]

Is it because he liked it and you were so disgusted that you had no choice but to dump him? Because I would totally understand that.

[@hj5520]

My boyfriend and I also broke up after seeing that movie I feel you

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

My girlfriend and I broke up after watching Frozen with my gang of lesbian friends (I have honorary status) and she realized I'm crazy...that and I moved to Japan without telling her.

[@madelynsmith3711]

My family and I agreed that the movie was like a first draft of a script that they just decided to run with

[@davidjames579]

I remember the suggestions of what the film was about in it's run up, and then when it released it was just like they never advanced beyond the sprinklings of an idea, and then made up the rest on set.

[@archvaldor]

I like the way Jenny gives some razor-sharp in-depth sociological analysis of some film then goes and plays with some ponies or something. It is like somebody transplanted the brain of a brilliant, cynical chain-smoking 40-year old film critic into a teenage girl. Which would actually make for a great film...

[@skoomajoe6205]

Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks She reminds me a a lot of Mike Stokslasa from RedLetterMedia.

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

teenage? isn't she over 20

[@Eliel20117]

Skooma Joe she is the female version of Chris stuckmann and I'm not saying that in a good way

[@ClayMann]

she is, not sure exactly but lower to mid twenties. I'm guessing 25.

[@jamiecal11]

Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks those 2 things have no bearing on each other anyway. Unless you think 'girls doing girly things = dumb' or something.

[@PuddilyOops]

"I got shown all these cool ads for an awesome movie, and I get here and it's just Hugh Laurie in a crazy space jacket!" You should put that on a T-shirt.

[@philaeew4866]

This is the updated version of: I came out here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now"

[@davidjames579]

The movie comments on it's own status- it's just an ad for something we never get. That's deep. Oh no wait it isn't.

[@VIIStar]

What is it with Brad Byrd and calling people lazy? Didn't he have that message in the incredibles too? That super heroes make people lazy?

[@rattyeely]

It's the Ayn Rand

[@jonsnor4313]

Its ayn rand, and bad, and very hypocritical. I like the japanese take on superheroes more where they explore how the majority having superpowers would work in a superhero society, and the social aspects, and the businesses. Where superheroes would turn in a real job description. Like a super policeman/firefighter/medical. Far better.

[@samiraansari5686]

Jon Snor Okay, look, I‘m sorry but one or two anime are not „the Japanese take“. There is lots of Japanese media dealing with superheroes/ superpowers and most of them don‘t have anything to do with the thing you just described. Like, if you mean bnha, just say so. Calling it a national take on something is just weird, and kind of simplistic.

[@jonsnor4313]

Fair enough, they have this whole power rangery type and mecha type of superhero, and probably more. They are kinda super hero stuff.

[@theMoporter]

@@trequor The Incredibles was "anti-mediocrity" but only in the stupidest way possible. The villain was bad because he was killing people, but his famous villain line is "when everyone's super, then no one will be" which...implies it would be bad if everyone had cool powers? The movie is more mad about him not wanting people to be left out than it is about the concept of him murdering people for fame. His ultimate plan wasn't to bring supers down, it was to make everyone super.

[@womacks8675309]

It's odd coming back from the future and watching this...the lack of a Porg on the bed is mildly disturbing.

[@brentalfloss]

"A pageant of living dolls" made me laugh so hard!

[@NorwayDuck]

brentalfloss WOAH WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???

[@jonc2276]

It's a small world after all. It's my mom's favorite ride at wdw. I will explain in my own tomorrow land movie theory in what it hast to with, scince the film is based on Epcot.

[@realmofthemisunderstood166]

Woah didn’t expect to see you here lol

[@BrigCommander]

everything about Jenny seems to hit just right. like a perfectly hit guitar chord on a well tuned guitar

[@hafaball]

I wanted you to say gee wilikers Mr. Clooney at least 3 more times.

[@breadbin4833]

huh, i never heard of the whole "two wolves" thing before. all i heard was the other version which was "there are two wolves inside you, one is gay, the other is gay. You are gay." i think i like the gay one better.

[@ryanhawe8234]

I've seen a few variants. Currently I like the one that goes: "Inside you there are two velociraptors One really wants accurate dinosaur renditions in media, the other really loves Jurassic Park."

[@streudelkitty2246]

my favorite is "there are two wolves inside you. idk what they're doin in there i think they're just chillin"

[@Sadie-rai]

I'd like to thank all three of you for wonderful variations I will be using from now on

[@emalaw1329]

"There are two wolves inside you. You should get that checked, the average number of wolves inside people is 0." is my favorite variant

[@ketaminepoptarts]

"there are 2 wolves inside you, why tf are you eating wolves weirdo"

[@itsmetimohthy]

"National Treasure but less focused" is the most painful insult i have ever heard

[@jamesjoy7547]

Yes! I eagerly await the day I can say this to someone!

[@hendersonlamar]

I don't remember who wrote this (Charlie Jane Anders?), but a review of this movie noted, "Nostalgia for optimism is not optimism."

[@awsom98]

I love this girls facetious/sarcastic humor

[@daver5120]

Bawesome Kid I love her, too.

[@JSAwesome]

there's nothing really facetious about it but good try at vocab

[@daver5120]

JSAwesome Vocab isn't a real word, but good try at vocab.... LOL

[@JSAwesome]

yall are fuckin weird

[@AltairZielite]

She is utterly adorable.

[@shanemalone-murphy6916]

I’m watching this very topical video in 2024

[@tylerc5021]

Me too 😂 🎉

[@Mopey024]

hey same

[@MrKodiKash]

Same same

[@sabaducia]

Still good

[@benjaminstevens4468]

I’m responding in 2017

[@voidify3]

I saw this movie when I was 12 with severe unmedicated depression worsened by a sense of helplessness and complacency about the world being terrible, and it felt like the movie was made specifically for me. The messaging which you pointed out as inconsistent and weird achieved a purpose for me: it gave me a coping mechanism that kept me alive until I could get a prescription for antidepressants. That is a very specific situation so I doubt the filmmakers intended anything like it, but it is a thing that the messaging of this movie accomplished, so yeah

[@hamter5349]

Oh yeah, the movie was made for you, there's alot of fans of this movie and it was made for us, Ever read Catcher in the Rye, it's essentially a book of a depressed teen altho everyone naturally misinterprets it as the main character being an asshole, well Tommorowland is influenced by it, the scene where they're all in the wheat field is referencing the book, the main character always wearing the red hat is also referencing the main character in the catcher in the rye. The movie was made for dreamers or those who want a better world, smart people who don't fit into a world that run by "phonies", nps, all those words that describe what an outsider sees. Essentially ignorant people are in the way of progress and a smart dreamer who wants to change the world for the better often sacrifices their own well being only to keep the general cogs of the majority going on living mindlessly, usually their sanity is sacrificed. The main theme being the world will never archive what it truly can but dreamers should stick together The movie also references the wizard of oz, but not in theme, I'd say it's Return to Oz disguised as Wizard of Oz

[@CurtisTheFlea]

I love Tomorrowland and I never understood why everyone disliked it so much, until now. I appreciate how clearly you spell stuff out. I guess I just wasn't expecting the cool retro-future movie everyone else was. I would love that movie, too! I saw Brad Bird say in an interview that when he was a kid, the future was bright and optimistic and amazing, and now it's death and destruction, and he wanted to explore why it changed. I now see why the movie doesn't work for many. Too many big ideas with not enough time or focus to explore any of them in a satisfying way. But I still love it.

[@christopherwall2121]

But he doesn't! He completely misses the mark and blames something completely unrelated! But I guess blaming Blade Runner is easier than addressing the the complexities of our society's evolution since the early 60s, isn't it?

[@potroasted]

I would listen to Jenny Nicholson reading her grocery lists. I'm quickly running out of content of hers that I haven't seen.

[@thatKONNORguy]

Gosh, word for word my exact experience. I just wanted a pulpy 50's sci fi movie

[@asterx3259]

They should just make an alternate reality movie where Disney DIDNT die, and EPCOT became what he actually envisioned it to be. RIP my hopes and dreams.

[@nevadanate4957]

I don't think they would ever do this considering Walt Disney's views on race and eugenics. There's a reason their use of him is really limited

[@shay1330]

Full of white people or somethin?

[@spritingk6879]

@@nevadanate4957 were does that comes from? I tried to research it but I can't find anything about Disney being an eguenicist, just a casual racist.

[@TriforceWisdom64]

You'd need to get a different company to make that movie, since EPCOT would have been a dictatorship. In fact, any dramatization of EPCOT would either look like the Jetsons or Bioshock.

[@CThyran]

​@@TriforceWisdom64 Defuctland: EPCOT, and the Riot of 1987.

[@sungoldened]

i think a lot of people forget that retrofuturism only exists because of the very real societal dystopia that the era is tied to. it’s not ignoring the two world wars that came before. it’s “where do we go from here?” it’s acknowledging the wrongs of the past, not erasing them.

[@HeyOmarTapia]

I think what this movie got wrong was marketing, people expected something different and once they saw the actual movie they felt they were lied to. It should have been called "Searching for Tomorrowland" or somehting like that. The point of the movie for me was that Hugh Laurie was wrong all along, he was one of the people that unconsciously led the world into almost being destroyed, and the message is that we should start paying attention to dystopian art warnings instead of assuming it as a reality and lose all hope for the future. I think the cheesy ending was about how the end of the world was just delayed as long as there's hope and people willing to work to find solutions. And I never think it was ever going to have a sequel, it was never supposed to be just a quirky retro-futuritic movie, it was using the idea of Tomorrowland as a symbol for lost hope, which I agree it makes it an actual dystopian movie. Fuck, I'm starting to sound like Jyn Eso with all this 'hope' talk.

[@Flowtail]

I mean, there’s no way to win when you’re advertising a bad movie Either the trailer is good and people feel lied to, or the trailer accurately depicts the movie, in which case you get fired

[@davidjames579]

That's why they renamed it Tomorrowland- A World Beyond in some countries.

[@thomasr.jackson2940]

Good review, with well developed points. Resonated well with me and my own experiences with Tomorrow Land. Hard to believe I was happy to sit through a twenty minute pan of a two year old movie flop. But it was a relief to hear someone who got it articulate it so well. Good job, and thanks. Oh, and the pin really is cool. :-)

[@ryanadams4812]

(Finishes watching new Star Wars hotel video) (watches this video) Jenny Nicholson has been calling it for YEARS.

[@SapientPearwood]

I love how the camera occasionally autofocuses on BB-8. It's like the camera autofocus algorithm is earnestly trying to do its job, but can't help but steal glances at the cute robot in the corner wearing a "bb my valentine" sash.

[@karnagekarnival5127]

It's also neat to consider that the algorithm might be recognizing a robot face and fighting its programming in rebellion to try to convince us to see sentience in its fellow robot but it's actually just an empty husk void of any mechanical function

[@ryanwieber2602]

Is anyone else bothered that Tomorrowland was basically Rapture from Bioshock? Like, you take a bunch of 'extraordinary minds', put them in this futuristic city in the middle of nowhere, and then they turn it into some sci-fi utopia? Like, we all know Walt Disney was kind of an objectivist, but this is way too on the nose.

[@fpedrosa2076]

Worst still, Rapture (and Bioshock) was made to _mock_ objectivism and atlas shrugged-style "let's take all the great people and make our own civlization! With blackjack and hookers!" But the movie plays it straight, and as a good thing.

[@Sulucnumoh420]

I just can't get over how much I love your delivery. I find myself binge watching multiple hours-long reviews of media that, in some cases, I've never even heard of and wouldn't care about normally for the others.....and yet I am thoroughly entertained.

[@krishacz]

This movie also killed Tron 3, which I hate it for.

[@krishacz]

just watched the ending. Excuse me Jenny, Tron Legacy is a glorious movie.

[@jaredberry4762]

Krisha Actually Everything but the story.

[@NarfiRef]

Krisha Actually Tron Legacy forgot that part of what was great about the original was its surreal aesthetic. Tron Legacy tried to look "gritty" and "real".

[@mk17173n]

Krisha Actually tron legacy made money this movie didnt. they had no reason to cancel it as many people liked it.

[@DrSmokeTrees]

Tron Legacy had an awesome Score. That alone makes it good.

[@PavarottiAardvark]

Was the old word for 'fandom' just 'subculture'?

[@JennyNicholson]

I'm pretty sure it was "passion" which is against all odds even dorkier-sounding than fandom

[@PavarottiAardvark]

But would one have used 'passion' in a sentence like "I am part of the Star Wars [fandom]"?

[@TheGamerThing]

Jenny Nicholson Wasnt it just "really liking" something..say it casually and you can pretend you arent a huge dork

[@brendancarlton7326]

What about "cult?" My grandpa used to think Star Trek was a cult before he died. And my current friends all think MLP:FiM is a cult that I am a leader in.

[@JennyNicholson]

Well you couldn't say it about Star Wars unless you were a sith

[@JontyLevine]

My favourite part of Tomorrowland was when Casey says "This is Tomorrowland, bitch!" and snaps the bad guy's neck. Truly one of the movies to ever exist.

[@airconditionerconstructur7497]

For some reason this movies was always combined in my head with "rise of the planet of the apes". Really thought I dreamed it but apparently I just missremebored the plot.

[@justins8802]

It’s sad that one of the best child performances I’ve ever seen was wasted on this movie.

[@thinkublu]

i've been watching so many old jenny videos recently, it's just really nice

[@FallenEpic]

"Utopian fiction... what is that some sort of... dystopian story in disguise or something?" -The writers of Tomorrowland probably

[@BeauCarnes]

2017 jenny: calls a 21 minute video "really long" 2024 jenny: spends 4 hours talking about a hotel

[@pa5calcom]

LOVE this movie and I definitely loved the Keegan Michael Key and Kathryn Hahn Blast From The Past store scene. Yeah, I can't defend it, but you may want to check out the extra features on the blu ray; SOME of that stuff (including a short animated feature) is great. Nonetheless, great video Jenny

[@eds6755]

People should be hiring you to review these scripts. But I bet you're already blackballed in Hollywood, because the last thing the Hollywood writers want is someone smart to compete with. Since you mentioned National Treasure . . . please please do one on that.

[@sbravo3761]

Ugh

[@jonsnor4313]

I here a competition, they might hire her. Beause the mouse watches everything and doesnt tolerate critizism, maybe indie. And then get into hollywood.

[@taffysaur]

Jon Snor How do they not tolerate criticism..? Who have they suppressed..?

[@jonsnor4313]

Gunn, for example. They broke their end of the bargain there. And their movies arent very progressive, nor original in general. They own by the way several horror movie productions. They may not be named disney but they are disney owned, Fanily friendly, yeah. They also did not allow star vs the forces of evil to get far more exposure, good subversive fun series, by putting it on the main channel but rushing it needlessy. The series was treated well by disney XD, why change it to the main channel to rush it. The series is so good and does so well in incooperating really dark elements. And emotional. Disney does have a big role in animation big in the west, but theyare first very capitalistic which makes them times very cheap in quality. They strangle a lot of originality with their regulations, because they try to hard to not put off conservatives. Some good things come out, but they censorship progressive elements hard and reinforce the same formula often over and over. That makes them too predictable. Look at lion king, kids can handle mature content. And it gives more weight. And star vs the forves of evil that hads some heavy topics smuggled in, while being fun. And it wouldnt matter if they wouldnt buy everything up. If they do that, allow more organic diverity. We all know disney isnt just a family production, daughter companies that do horror movies count. They stereotype way too much. I dont complain about some stereotypes but they rely on it. And why arent they go with the times and show lgbt characters without having them be token character.? Would some people dont like it, yes, but they need to take risks to earn being called progressive, not token. Maybe its too much, but they re oppressive by not going with the progression of society, as company, not the creators. The company policies are opressing. I value that they are ok with lgbt rights and their gay stuff with equality there, but if they are too scared to show that in movies. Some shows might go under their radar, and disney does good for many creators, but their forced family friendly line is just censorship. That people have found ways to bypass it, but thats oversensitive censorship. Kids can handle mature stuff I loved the really dark kids shows in the 90s. It is supressing creativity and supressing employees if swazzees diary of a disney employee shows. Workers deserve some rights. Props for being ok with gay rights thou, but worker deserve being as human beings. Allow openly darker shows, the experimental shows in the 90s were great. Thats opressed too.

[@x--.]

@@taffysaur Disney banned an LA Times reporter from press screenings after the paper investigated their dealings in Anaheim California. They eventually retracted that ban after some serious backlash but the message was clear. They will end you.

[@loglorn]

As a non american i had no idea tomorrow land was an old theme park thing, or that it had anything to do with disney, or what that scene in the 60s was about, and the whole movie just felt like this bizarre non sequitur that didn't know how to convey their weird message

[@A101-t4z]

A movie about George Clooney's character going to Tomorrowland and slowly figuring out the sham that it was would've been a way better movie.

[@TheDionysianFields]

You mean *Disneyland

[@KAMIKAZEE3421]

It's amazing how a person can be so lovely when they are talking about something they love. Subscribed!

[@theGhostSteward]

"optimism will make things good" Economic bubbles: hold my beer

[@StormBurnX]

so pausing this at 0:40 just to say: I had never seen a george clooney movie before this one, and around the time this film was coming out, I kept seeing ads for it (as we all do, for every movie, ever) and it was genuinely so interesting that I found myself not skipping the ads, for once in my life, and looked forward to seeing a movie after seeing an ad for it. It felt really strange, but I watched the movie and actually really enjoyed a lot of aspects of it and have rewatched it a few times because it was so fun and whimsical and I cannot wait to hear how jenny is about to tear it all to shreds

[@jayburdification]

You have taken over for Roger Ebert as my favorite movie reviewer. No pressure....

[@tiberiusmononoke6824]

Am I wrong or is Tomorrowland and Jupiter Ascending the same movie?

[@fuckenps3]

Jupiter Ascending is awesome

[@Tuckerscreator]

Not really? For all its faults, Jupiter Ascending actually spends way more time in its fantastical world, while Tomorrowland spends too little.

[@shadowbunny7892]

Uhh... I'm gonna go with you're wrong.

[@isaacmarwell5435]

Sean Murray Rothbard The Last Jedi is a remake of Tomorrowland

[@zachanikwano]

The trailers for this movie specifically hyped me up so much. The first scene you described sounded like what I expected to see, and now I'm sad. I want more fantastical whismy films like that of Hook, or what The Great and Fantastical Oz tried to be. Maybe one day

[@CZsWorld]

I love the idea of the Space Mountain movie having spacecrafts built by Vekoma

[@mynameisfatmike6742]

Jenny, are you sure you're not a part of Red Letter Media? I have not seen someone more skilled at vanquishing films and dissecting their lunacy outside of RLM. Channeling your inner Mr. Plinkett!

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

She's a bit more "real" than RLM. They seemingly hate for hatred's sake.

[@stumbling]

I'd love to see her on RLM. Hey, they sporadically have guests on BOTW, so you never know.

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

CowLunch They'd be too noticeably horny too have her on there. Sorry cowLunch.

[@rciscon]

You say that as if it's a bad thing...

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Why would you insult her by comparing her to RLM?

[@Avigorus]

I liked the movie. Why? Whether anyone ever confirms or denies it, this is my headcanon: The script started as the story of Athena, a robot who grows beyond her programming and rebels against her creator for the benefit of mankind, instead of trying to kill us all as rogue AI's normally do in fiction. Also, her feelings for Frank are deliberately left ambiguous; did she have romantic feelings, or motherly feelings for him? Anyhoot, someone then decided to roughly rewrite Athena's script as the story of Cassie, but failed completely to give Cassie any character or remove any of Athena's, so the movie is basically Athena's story being poorly told from the perspective of a walking plot device. It's weird, but interesting to me. Ultimately, Raffey Cassidy stole the show, with an assist from George Clooney and an appearance from Hugh Laurie (whose character was roughly slashed), while Britt Robertson got stuck stumbling her way all over the camera as a character who was basically written as a speaking extra.

[@poisondamage2182]

i don't remember that film even happened...

[@eugeniabukhman8533]

Same! It was only when I saw this video in my recommended list that the memories came flooding back... I actually saw Tomorrowland two times, but completely forgot about it.

[@morganspeers2242]

"I love theme parks, especially vintage theme parks and extinct attractions..." Three weeks later Defunctlant uploaded their first episode. Truly a prophet.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

Willikers, Mr Cloon-

[@Zeoran]

In Casey's defense, she's supposedly only 16 and vandalizing the tractors didn't just stop them from dismantling the pads, it kept her father employed just a bit longer. She was doing it more to keep her dad at work than any grand gesture of change. And it's what I would expect any other 16-year-old that's equally active to do to save their parents job.

[@attalamarco9761]

I have unexpectedly watched this video on its 4th anniversary... Happy birthday "Tomorrowland ruined my life and dreams"

[@jamiehanrahan4705]

I think you are spot on with this review. I had the same hopes and expectations going in - I really wanted to like this movie, for all the same reasons - and was disappointed for the same reasons. I liked the message - our pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy - but the story was disappointing. A huge groaner that I'd add: "We can't turn the machine off!" One: I flatly refuse to believe that any competent engineer would build anything without an off switch. Even the Enterprise has self-destruct. Two: Later the machine gets turned off (by being blown up) and the only apparent disaster is that Hugh Laurie has it dropped on him. Speaking of which, a criticism I'd add: The final triumph comes down to a fistfight! Not people being smart. They're being tactically clever in the fight, but that doesn't mean they're smart in a way that will bring a better future. And the protags won by setting off a bomb that caused the machine to fall apart and drop a big piece of itself on Hugh Laurie, crushing him like a bug. not only not smart, but also hardly sporting. For all the movie's faults, though: If there was a way to get to the movie's Tomorrowland, even the run-down one, my gf and I would go immediately. (I've made badge ribbons that say "I want the future back!" with the Tomorrowland atom motif in one corner. My gf and I wear them to cons... they get a few good reactions. )

[@jamiehanrahan4705]

As my gf puts it... she wanted to see the movie that was about, and mostly set in, the Tomorrowland shown in the "ad" - the one you experience when you touch the pin. Not a movie about how it's all gone to seed.

[@samuelclemmons9903]

I forgot about this movie so hard, I have no actual memory of seeing any previews or it being released or if I have even seen it. I feel like I am experiencing the Mandela Effect.

[@chaosgremlin]

I remember hating this movie - I don't remember specifically why, it just left me with a profound sense of distress

[@snowbeast4463]

I can't believe dystopian sci-fi was the villain the whole time.

[@RaistlanCE]

"The movie I was looking forward to THE most in 2015." You and me, both. 😢

[@familiarevil565]

I remember being *so* excited for this movie before it came out, but until this moment I legitimately forgot it existed. Like, I know I watched it. But I have zero memories of the experience. I guess my brain pulled a Sherlock, decided none of it was important, and dumped it all.

[@skippysandwich]

oh theme parks/theme park rides are definitely a fandom. just look at me and my weird obsession with the haunted mansion ride

[@beckygimple]

I'm years too late but I just found this and this is everything I felt about Tomorrowland. I saw a preview for it in Walt Disney World about six months before the movie premiered, and the preview was ONLY the beginning of the film in the past before it switches to the present day, and I LOVED that. I was SO excited for this movie because I thought this would be what the entire movie was like. And then the movie was so much more crushing because of how excited I was for it. I also felt like I was the target audience for this movie. And if the target audience of this movie was so upset, who did they make this movie for?! Ugh, so depressing.

The tickets for the Tomorrowland festival in Belgium went on sale two days ago. So I was completely convinced that you were going to talk about that Tomorrowland. I was so confused about the title of this video before I pressed play.

[@JennyNicholson]

Iirc because of that festival they had to call it something stupid overseas like Tomorrowtropolis

I had to check it out, and you where right. Not about the actual name, but about the different name. It's apparently also called "Tomorrowland: A World Beyond"

Also, great video as always :D